f.b.i. general counsel under james comey. a central figure in the russia investigation as well as twitter's decision maker to censor the hunter biden. >> bill: he vetted the twitter files before released. the files musk is releasing to journalist. the "new york post" calling it an inside job. >> dana: jim jordan saying it confirms what we already know. >> this just shows big tech, big media, big government working together to keep information from we the people. that's the problem. what i'm committed to doing and members on the judiciary committee are committed to do is get into the f.b.i.'s role in all this. >> dana: hillary vaughn has more from capitol hill. good morning, hillary. >> good morning. as it turns out some of these twitter files were tainted by jim baker formerly with the f.b.i. secretly screening the documents beforehanding them over to reporters. elon musk tweeted in light of concerns about baker's possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue,

then f.b.i.gents passed that list to twitter higher ups and twitter replied with what accounts and tweets were suspended or deleted. republicans eager to take control of the house majority in january say they'll use their subpoena power to get answer. >> we are going to change the course of where the f.b.i. is today. if you look, the f.b.i. -- every day we learn something more. they became and private companies become a political arm of them to go after individuals with no repercussions for individuals that know what's happening. it raises more questions. >> the f.b.i. says their engagement with twitter was routine saying they regularly engage with private sector entities, they make decisions about what, if any action they take on their platforms and for their customers after the f.b.i. has notified them. but bill, in many of these cases the tweets and accounts that the f.b.i. were flagging had very few followers and some tweets were clearly written in satire. >> bill: thank you. hillary vaughn f

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the f.b.i. is firing back over the latest batch of twitter files. >> there will be a lot of questions for the f.b.i. we need to make sure is that the government is not going through things helping twitter, facebook or anybody else hold fast to what they should or not on their platforms. >> new questions for the bureau after it calls the newly revealed emails the work of conspiracy theorists. brian kilmeade is up next. ♪ today, everything costs more: gas, groceries, cars. we all need cash in the bank to stay ahead. well here's great news for veterans who own a home. home values have climbed to near all-time highs, too. that means the cash you need is right there in your home. newday can unlock it with the newday 100 va cash out loan. it lets you borrow up to 100% of your home's value. not just part of it like some other loans. pay down high-rate credit card debt, consolidate your second mortgage and car loans, and have the security of cash in the bank. the va has granted newday automatic authorit

and remember that the f.b.i. was paying twitter $3.4 million they gave them to help censor americans and particularly our story three weeks before the election. >> dana: lou said he read this. you don't have to. twitter disagreed with the f.b.i. you're welcome. matt taibbi responded and saying it's very odd that people, being ted lieu, think the f.b.i., dhs relationship is a partisan story. it has grown under republican and democratic administrations. this concerns everyone. do you agree? >> absolutely. ted lieu has a vested interest there. and the fact is that every american should be very concerned about the fact that the premier law enforcement agency, the f.b.i., has been doing this sort of subterranean influence operation on the social media giants in order to tilt the 2020 election in favor of one candidate in order to suppress an accurate story by the "new york post." now, the f.b.i. have been spying on rudy giuliani throughout 2020. they would have had access to the email that came through from the comput

. >> the f.b.i. said to have given twitter a heads-up that so-called state actors would try to smear the president's son with hacked materials. "new york post" columnist miranda devine writing about it and talking about it last night. >> the f.b.i. had come to twitter and told them in their weekly meetings before the 2020 election to look out for a hacked material. when twitter saw our story in october about hunter biden, they censored it immediately using -- what did they use? their new hacked materials policy that they had been coerced or encouraged, lobbied to modify by the f.b.i. during those weekly meetings. >> dana: fox team coverage plus reaction from "new york post" reporter john levine here on set. let's begin with alexandria hoff from washington. hi, alex. >> we're expecting another round of these twitter files to be released sometime soon. over the weekend musk said he gave sub stack writer access to the complete trove. he will report on the contents alongside him. the reporter detailed hi

f.b.i. firing back over the latest batch of twitter files. why they insist there is nothing to see here despite evidence showing close ties with the social media giant. >> we need to make sure is that the government is not going through things helping twitter, facebook or anybody else hold fast to what they should or not on their platforms. that's not the role of the f.b.i. to look at free speech. c. oh man. always look for the grown in idaho seal. - they get it. they know how it works. and more importantly, it works for them. - i don't have any anxiety about money anymore. - i don't have to worry about a mortgage payment every month. - it allowed me to live in my home and not have to make payments. - linda, dinah, joanne, very different people, but they do have a couple of things in common. they love their home and they know their stuff. they all talked about the counseling they got so they knew how reverse mortgage worked and how it could be a real financial solution for their retirement.

but the f.b.i.in the crosshairs now and that is just -- what didn't get done with all the time they spent on that? >> i think we have many more questions than answers with regards to this seventh twitter dump. i'm hopeful that a republican house and a democratic senate can subpoena all of these records, not the cherry picked release by elon musk who is a political actor. we need to see everything. i want to see the f.b.i. come before these oversight committees both in the house and senate to talk about the process that went on. again, we also have to remember, this was donald trump's department of justice. this was his attorney general and his f.b.i. director chris wray that he appointed. so if they were approving a lot of these activities, i would like to hear from them as well. this is not obama's team. this was donald trump's team briefing the social media leaders both at twitter, facebook, what have you. we have many more questions than answers. i want full transparency. let's see all the record

the f.b.i., there are big questions about the f.b.i. what did they know? why were they engaged in partisan election-eering. they embedded them in these media operations. remember, jim baker was the guy who said when the pfizer application came, he's like drowning frat boy with three kids. let's go do it. get those warrants. suddenly hunter's laptop arrives at twitter. we have to be cautious, this hasn't been vetted. we have to check it out. >> so the part that i wanted to get out was the communist party. that the chinese communist party connection, they also have a pretty big platform called tik tok. and you saw the governor of maryland today cut off, you know, he's trying to cut the faucet off of tik tok in his state. i think that's another place we really have to take a look at because who would love a situation like this. people complicit to destroy one party over the other and the ccp, they don't care which party. they just like all the chaos and the division in america. >> we're very critical of tik tok because of how the ccp is involved in that but w

the files show the f.b.i. acting as a doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship encompassing agencies across the federal government from the state department, pentagon and cia and writes twitter had so much contact with so many agencies executives lost track. is today the d.o.d. and tomorrow the f.b.i.? the weekly call or monthly meeting? it was dizzying. the f.b.i. doesn't deny the contact happened but trying to explain why it happened with this. the correspondence between the f.b.i. and twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional longstanding and ongoing federal government and private sector engagements which include numerous companies over multiple sectors and industries. as evidenced in the correspondence the f.b.i. provides critical information to the private sector in an effort to allow them to protect themselves and their customers. but there are critics who say there is a line and the f.b.i. crossed it. >> look, i was mayor of miami-dade and in charge of one o

the same f.b.i. that told us chris wray's comment in a hearing was you can sleep well at night knowing we fixed the fisa process and shortly after that we got a second report from the inspector general that showed all kinds of problems with that particular process. when the f.b.i. sends us that kind of letter i don't put stock in it. i put stock in 14 agents who have talked to us and took whistleblower status while we're in the minority. that's how bad the situation is. they come to us because they know they can trust us and because the problem is so bad. one of them said it is rotted to the core at the washington field office in the f.b.i. that's what i put stock in. i've never seen that in my time in congress when you have that many agents willing to come forward and say this is how bad it has gotten. never forget the first one who came forward was on the school board issue and they said they're putting tags and putting designation on moms and dads ratted out by the neighbor on the snitch line that

during your years at the f.b.i.? >> absolutely. you have these -- people, again, they can appear normal at times. and then they can fly into these rages, and kill, just for the sake and the thrill of killing. and it raises the question, nancy, of, is this the first time? that's one of the reasons the moscow police chief was casting about looking for more information about this person. i think they have enough to make an arrest, enough probable cause but they are still building their case and they are still trying to figure out motive and everything there is to know about this person going back to his childhood. my concern is, and -- >> nancy grace: we've learned a lot about this guy and his childhood. a former f.b.i. special agent, former navy seal, joining us, the art and awareness of attack. thank you for being with us. everybody on the panel, jump in, all right? if you have an idea or a thought or a lead, tell me. don't wait for me to call on you like a school teacher. jonathan gilliam, this is what we know, this guy was very so

>> reporter: the f.b.i.d 33 boxes of records august 8th at mar-a-lago, including records that were supposed to be in the hands of the national archives. last month, the justice department appointed special counsel jack smith to oversee the growing probe into those documents. trump has downplayed the importance of the seizures, but critics say mishandling of these records could have allowed highly sensitive material to fall into the wrong hands. >> the disregard and disdain for legal norms and rules simply cannot be accepted from anyone. no one is above the law. >> reporter: last week, an appeals court overruled trump's request for an independent special master to review some of the papers seized from mar-a-lago, which had slowed the investigation. though trump could still appeal that decision, the investigation into him grows, norah, it accelerates. >> o'donnell: quite a development, thank you so much. we turn now to some breaking news-- cbs news has learned of new online chatter from domestic extremist grou

so you had the f.b.i. reaping the top former f.b.i. lawyer who was a top lawyer at twitter at the time on these very issues, and, of course, you know, baker is infamous for running this anti-trump -- or helping run this anti-trump operation at the f.b.i. that involves shady pfizer warrants and remember he had the meeting with hillary clinton's top campaign lawyer who supposedly didn't tell him that the hillary campaign wanted the f.b.i. to pursue this fake claim that russia was colluding with trump through bank -- secret bank servers and such so baker, it turns out, was a part of the deep state and still operating as a deep state at twitter, because you have, you know, the reporters suggesting he was withholding information and then separately, you had musk himself talk about information that had been withheld from the previous owner, jack dorsey, the previous c.e.o., and maybe that information had been deleted. i don't know who's involved in that but he needs to do an audit of the system there at twitter and get all of these documents

who needs chinese censorship when you have the f.b.i.? >> yeah, we know now they got in bed with the government in ways that totally contradict their b.s. about their values and democratizing information. the real villain here is the government itself. >> harris: it is pervasive contact with twitter. we know jason chaffetz has something to say about it. he is in "focus" next. the long-lasting scent of gain flings made it smell like dave was in his happy place... ...the massage chair at the mall. but...he wasn't. gain flings with oxi boost and febreze. veteran homeowners: need cash? at newday you can borrow up to 100% of your home's value to pay down high rate credit cards, personal loans, even car loans. veterans get more at newday. after years of chasing the big idaho potato truck... i finally caught it. oh man. always look for the grown in idaho seal. >> harris: will he or won't he quit them? senator joe manchin dodge knowledge questions about his future with the democratic over the weekend. he is the party's only centrist senator follo

the f.b.i.ad the laptop for a year so the question then becomes how much communication did the f.b.i. or people at the f.b.i. have with twitter during that period? it might have all been a grand heads-up. >> miranda devine says the f.b.i. was in contact with twiter and facebook as well. we'll hear more about this in terms of the investigation. the media will continue to downplay it like they are now and like they did in october of 2020. we saw the broadcast news networks give seven seconds to the story. the fact is that 20 million viewers still watch abc, cbs, nbc on a nightly basis. this will be dismissed or mocked. >> dana: "good morning america" has been in a little turmoil over the past week. two anchors have been having an affair and married to other people and they've been taken off air. a quote from abc news president saying that -- fox news digital reporting. they informed staffers monday morning the internal distraction is too significant. fox news digital has learned. i will take them

quarterback of the f.b.i./russia collusion scandal. and he had had to leave the f.b.i. because of that. low and behold he shows up at twitter five months before the 2020 election. >> now congressman james comer, a republican, is calling on twitter employees past and present including baker to testify alleged censorship. he writes the american people deserve to know why twitter took down the hunter biden laptop story even when colleagues were asking about the rationale. bari weiss is investigating twitter's decision making surrounding the hunter biden laptop story. a long form report from her will be forthcoming. >> dana: fox news contributor guy benson. host of the guy benson show and patel, we're glad to have you both. the "new york post" cover. inside job. democratic lawyer secretly blocked release of internal twitter files and here is the headline and quote from michael goodwin. nearing the truth on the biden racket. the biden protection racket is starting to crack and the public is closer to getting the tr

the $600 million for the f.b.i., the new headquarters for the f.b.i., the $215 million for a.t.f., the $2.5 billion for the n.i.h., which is basically at war with freedom and forcing needles into the arms of the american people, and undermining the freedom of the american people in terms of their health choices and paying anthony fauci's salary, a c.d.c. of $67 to million, the world health organization, the -- $670 million, the world health organization, an education department which is administering biden's $400 billion student bail loanout, all of that stuff, let's ignore all of that. let's ignore all of the horrible policy, all the things it's doing to undermine our freedom and creating the alphabet soup and expanding the alphabet soup of bureaucracy that's tyrannizing the american people. let's put all that aside. we're just talking about inflation and we're spending more money and dumping more money while we're raising interest rates, we're going to spend more money, causing more inflation, undermining the dollar even more. and you had mitch mcconnell just saying in july of 2022,

you look at the f.b.i. and their collusion with these big tech companies to censor our first amendment rights and speech. there is really no end to where this goes. we've seen under the usda where they have picked and chosen who gets their loans paid off completely but you have to check a certain box. this is really what is so egregious about the biden administration. they are picking and choosing winners and losers. when you look at a subcommittee, select committee like this it is critical. we need to explain to the american people how this administration has weaponized the agencies but how we will dismantle that and fix it so it doesn't ever happen again. >> molly: president biden signed the massive funding bill into law. another 1.7 trillion tacked on to the spending leg -- legacy. most on the right are upset about some of the pork. the liberal goodese. sky high spending bill. this is the optics of this. the white house actually flew this massive bill for signing to st. croix on the taxpayer dime. just t

the f.b.i.sponding to revelations from the twitter files that expose the agency's close contact with twitter employees to flag certain tweets and accounts. no surprise there. they are slamming accusations of conspiracy theories now. i want the read this statement on twitter and the suppression accusations. the correspondence between the f.b.i. and twitter show nothing more than examples of hour traditional long-standing and ongoing federal government private sector engagements. it is unfortunate that people are feeding the american public misinformation for the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency. what say you? >> what a really terrible statement by the f.b.i. nobody wants to fight the f.b.i. that's not a fun thing. you don't want to fight the c.i.a. the simple truth is if the twitter files had not been released by elon musk we all thought this was happening, now we know it was happening and suddenly they are pretending that everyone knew and it is standard practice and everything

are we talking about subpoenaing the leadership in the f.b.i.? no, we talk about giving the f.b.i.on else of dollars more to have a fancy new headquarters in this omnibus bill. >> dana: the other thing in there that's a surprise to people. we led our show with the border. there is $25 billion in there for customs and border patrol but not actually to control the border. it is just for what, for housing more migrants? that's not solving the problem. karine jean-pierre has said if republicans would just agree to more money, this problem would be solved. it is not going to solve the problem. >> it won't solve the problem at all. it will encourage more illegal migration. we get the benefits the others got. we know we have a place to stay until we figure out our next plan of course more people will be coming. the supreme court is getting involved. no, it is really misleading to say that that money in the omnibus is for border security when it is anything but. dana, i'm told right now we have 15,000 border agents. think about that. 15,000 border agents. you know how many i.r.s. agents jo

which as part of the f.b.i.'s quote trownt terror program, the f.b.i.'s national counterintelligence program, which without legal authority and which was in stark violation of the u.s. constitution, harassed, harmed, arrested and assassinated innocent, ordinary american citizens. my friend fred hampton, who was a brave young man that i recruited to join the illinois chapter of the black panther party which i had, along with mr. bob brown, organized in 1 1968. fred and i fought together, side-by-side, against police brutality and police murder in chicago specifically. but of course our great nation in general. we set up free community health clinics, free breakfast for children programs, a free busing to prison program to allow families to visit their loved ones who were in prison. mr. speaker, we initiated free sickle cell anemia testing programs to educate this nation and to test black people about this dreaded but often larmly ignored disease. mr. speaker thanks to his charismatic leadership, fred hampton was so powerful and so inspirational throughout

well, the f.b.i.w involved in the investigation as the power company warns it could take days before electricity is fully restored. cbs mark strassmann is in moore county, north carolina, and is going to start us off this evening. good evening, mark. >> reporter: good evening, norah. and a community wondering who is behind this attack, the major utility here may need until thursday to get electricity flowing aga what happened here saturday night was a criminal attack. >> reporter: criminal and tageted, an attack in the heart of north carolina. someone shot up two power substations, gunfire that wrecked major utility equipment, pushing moore county into crisis. who and why is unclear, but the impact was obvious, like these traffic lights, all of carthage, north carolina, has no power. >> no heat. >> reporter: steve and meg wilkins' unheated house-- 55 agrees. tick you off? >> absolutely. this is not what i wanted to be doing today, or last night or the night before-- stringing power cords, eating cold

s role was in warning twitter about the hunter biden laptop story, and if former f.b.i. general counsel and then at the time twitter deputy general counsel james baker helped the f.b.i. shut down that story, and what he did to help facilitate that. so far, there are no tweets from bari dealing with the government intervention at all but we continue to get these. 15 so far. 16 and 17 just came in. talking about tik tok, they were on the trend's blacklist and was taken as a do not take action or users without consulting sip. it goes to the whole theme here of shutting down conservative voices. when matt was posting his twitter files he made it clear there were, both sides were censored to some point but because almost all of the employees at twitter were liberal or democrats, the democrats had twitter's ear and those are the ones that mostly got censored and we're seeing proof positive of that right now. we'll continue to cover breaking news as i comes in. >> tucker: amazing. no one can sum up a story with no script ab-lib any better. do you think -- what do you think is g

why does the f.b.i. want to go after them? because they want to go after free speech because they may be talking about politics. those people must not know that they are putting people before politics, too. they are taking care of those people. shut them down. not only is it wrong, it's illegal. it is time congress conducts real oversight and accountability in 11 days. i promise you this, house republicans will begin that on the very first day. but this bill will give biden administration a free pass. this bill provides the f.b.i. with $375 million for a new headquarters. over $11 billion in funding. i guess this congress of democrat majority right now doesn't care if the f.b.i. spied on you. if the f.b.i. went after you simply because you wanted free speech. i guess they believe in that. i guess that's what you mean by putting people before politics. don't listen to the people because if they talk about something other than your politics and what you agree, you should shut them down. fund something that does that. oh, probabl

it ensures the f.b.i. gives children's advocacy center personnel access to critical case information so victims can get the medical, mental health, and services they need. finally, the bill requires the child sexual abuse and child trafficking cases are reviewed by a multidisciplinary team that regularly scheduled times so that the team can share information about case progress, address any investigative or prosecutorial bear yrs, and ensure victims receive support and needed treatment. this provision will ensure mon of these serious cases is neglected, that children are not endangered by failure to investigate. i thank senator cornyn, senator comes, senator grassley, and senator cloa by sure for introducing this important legislation in the senate. i thank congressman costa and congressman gonzalez for championing it in the house. i hope my colleagues will join me in supporting these bipartisan, bicameral legislation. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the g

especially at a time when you're about to give an extra half billion dollars annually to the f.b.i. i think the committee tried awkwardly in a lot of spaces to pivot back to donald trump, even when there are obvious failures. these things aren't mutually sleeves you can contend that donald trump did these things that were who and work and you can also say there was a not of information that showed the f.b.i. and capitol police were more prepared for vinals on january 6. yamiche: when you look at this report and all the commendations, theleft hook central count a.c. -- electoral count act is being reformed in the omnibus bill. will we see other things come out? scott: it had unanimous jump almost from the jump. the baseline change is that on january 6, 2021, you needed only wasn't member of the house and one member of the senate to stop the certification process and force a detective. iin this new legislation which was forced by the congress this week, it's got to be 20% of the house and 20% of the senate, which nation it more difficult to gulf of mexico up the works. the house bill

now, this came out after musk discovered that the controversial x f.b.i. russian gate lawyer james baker was personally reviewing and approving the initial batch of twitter files that were put out by matt -- and baker was still serving as the top lawyer for twitter until musk fired him earlier this week. this is a huge story. now, instead of voicing concern about twitter's collusion with the dnc and potentially the federal government, many so-called journalists are now more worried that musk stall beds at twitter's headquarters in case employees were tired, working a lot of overtime, so they would have a place to get a few hours sleep. san francisco, what's their reaction? to being nice to your employees? oh, let's open up an investigation on elon musk. that prompted this response from elon musk. so the city of san francisco attacks companies providing beds for tired employees instead of making sure kids are safe from fytinol. adam schiff is so deeply troubled by elon musk that he's now flat out lying about hate speech on the platform, siting zero evidence

he was the former f.b.i.came to twitter as deputy counsel just before the 2020 election and who we now know this week was vetting his own internal communications and holding up the release of the next batch of files before giving them to journalist matt taibbi and bari weiss. this as oversight committee chairman james comer sent a letter directly to baker and two other twitter employees to appear before a public hearing on capitol hill next week and answer questions over possible suppression of information. now committee member donalds had this to stay. >> well, you cannot save democracy if you have potentially agents of the government and media companies suppressing information. that is far worse than russia collusion. so we have to get down to the bottom of this for the sake of the entire republic. you cannot have people going in the back door suppressing information and suppressing free speech. >> as for the next dump of files we expect it to come from bari weiss. we don't have a date or timeline for when

we're also aware when we need to bring in the idaho state police and f.b.i. or a.t.. >> there are no secrets in a small town. how is this a secret? >> that's why we'll continue to push through this investigation until we can uncover that secret. what i can offer is that we are going to work continuously and we'll provide as many answers as we can. >> bill: here is where we think things stand now. not clear whether it was targeted or random. forensic results are coming back in from the crime lab. authorities have towed five cars from the crime scene and processing them for evidence. >> dana: fox news obtaining unseen photos of one of the victims. here is maddy. some of these photos take days before she was killed. her father speaking exclusively to fox news on the state of the investigation. >> the always just hope for a resolution to something like this so we can start moving on in our life. i just have to hope and trust that they are doing as good a job as anyone could do on this. it seems like they should have figured it out by now but i don't know. >> dana: christ

and twitter just gave in and at the behest of the f.b.i. with whom they were having weekly meetings. the biden campaign and 51 former intelligence officials. we need to get to the bottom of this came about. not just the story, they deplatformed the "new york post." it's incredible. >> bill: clapper and brennan, they were the ones ironically guilty of disinformation, marc. >> 100%. think about this. twitter allowed the ayatollah to have the twitter account and vladimir putin to continue tweeting and the taliban and chinese foreign ministry to continue tweeting but they suppressed the "new york post." that was their priority. and as part -- at the behest of these 51 intelligence officials. now that republicans have control of congress they need to call up the 51 intelligence officials under subpoena and find out how this letter got started. i've been on letters like this where you sign your name and calling for a specific policy. it gets started by somebody. somebody has the pen and it is circulated by somebody and a campaign to do it. who is

the f.b.i. today out with a cover story calling elon musk twitter gate revelations fed lies. ari fleischer is a former white house press secretary. great to see you. the conclusion that matt, the reporter after going through all this stuff essentially is that here is proof that he presents that both biden and trump campaigns had inside lines to twitter senior executives to make decisions. the key difference, though, that is late bare in the emails. there is no record that twitter accommodated requests from the trump campaign like they did the biden. >> i have been around the government and campaigns long enough to know everybody tries to get access to people in communications every where whether it's abc, nbc, cbs. it is the job of operatives to have numbers and access. >> and the job of journalists. >> the job of journalists is to be fair, objective and neutral. what they have here is proof of a collaboration effort between the biden and came an twitter, social media. it reinforces everything c

they are actually more f.b.i. the case 60 now up from 46 and even though we're just five days away from christmas, the police chief says in a video yesterday finding the killer is their only focus. >> that does not change anything for us. we will continue to push through the holidays. we have a team that will continue to do the investigation and work on that as we move through the holidays. >> dane dana, it has been a long five weeks for him and his department and how much of this investigation he already has turned over to the f.b.i. or idaho state patrol. publicly his department is still the lead in this investigation and taking a lot of criticism right now, dana. >> dana: dan springer in idaho. thank you. >> bill: disgraced and defuncted ftx founder sam bankman-fried has been ex extradited to the united states. he has been held in the bahamas for a week's time. fox news learned that once he is here on bail, he could be released. but that's a decision for the courts to decide. andy mccarthy, former assistant u.s

. >> bill: remember, the f.b.i. had the laptop for a year, john. >> i think it's just a grand idea to subpoena those people. for me it's a classic question of what did they know and when did they know it. not just that they had the laptop for a year before it was published but also these were people that held senior position in the obama/biden white house. clapper, brennan, panetta. they could have launched a precision drone strike. for them to say we didn't know what hunter biden was up to in those days. they must have known what the vice president's son was doing in china and russia during that period. so my question would be what did you know, when did you know it and why did you lie to the american people in that letter calling it russian disinformation when you knew it must have been true and you knew what was happening? i would want to know these things under oath. >> dana: at the very least super careless and just said put my name on it, it's fine and they violated -- >> where did the letter come from? who or

the f.b.i. is assisting in the investigation.rities said today that a shooting last night at a south carolina power facility was not connected to the north carolina attack. well, turning now to your money. as americans are seeing some relief at the pump, gas prices continue to drop. they're now lower than they were one year ago. the national average is $3.33 cents per gallon, compared to $3.34 this time last year. in tonight's "money watch," cbs' kris van cleave reports that despite falling gas prices, americans are still being squeezed by inflation. >> reporter: how low will they go? plummeting pump prices below $3 at this atlanta-area gas station thursday. how much are you saving with gas prices down? >> oh, i save a pretty penny. pretty good penny. >> reporter: after reaching an all-time high of $5.02 this summer, the average cost of a gallon of gas across the country is down nearly 35% and is cheaper than it was a year ago. where do you think they settle? >> well, i think below $3 could be the floor. conceivably if everything

the tennessee man is accused of targeting the f.b.i. agents who handled his investigation.he f.b.i. field office in knoxville as well. nancy. >> cordes: scott macfarlane, thank you. the c.d.c. said today the u.s. got slammed earlier and harder by the flu this season than in previous years. all but five states are considered to have high or very high flu activity. so far, at least 15 million americans have fallen ill. for the first time this season, though, flu hospitalizations have actually fallen week over week. the white house insists it is prepared to handle an influx of migrants when title 42, that pandemic-era measure that blocked many of them from entering, expires next week. thousands of people a day are expected to try to cross into the border city of el paso, texas. cbs' lilia luciano is there. >> reporter: "it makes me sad to leave my wife, my kids, my mother," says 36-year-old edwin antonio cruz, while in a damp, makeshift shelter in el paso, as he makes plans to provide for his family of five in nicaragua. what does your daughter tell you when you talk to her? t

how about the f.b.i. and twitter and so on? so, you know, people say what can we do? maybe we should think first about the fundamentals about our children and grandchildren, teaching them what it means to be an honorable and decent and responsible human being. it's what this book is about. i think we need this about as much as anything else. it starts early. reading and understanding what a decent and honorable thing life can be. that's where we need to focus our attention. reading, math and learning the virtues. >> julie: you are right. thank you for writing this book. a lot of patients like myself want to thank you. about time somebody addresses what's the root most important base for our children to grow into successful and also good people as adults. bill bennett, thank you so much for talking to us. >> rich: state and military police are taking a travel ban in buffalo this morning as the city recovers from a historic blizzard. with intense fighting ongoing more than ten months into the war, russia is rejecting ukraine's proposed peace plan. >> i don't hold out a

why does the f.b.i. want to go after them? because they want to go after free speech because they may be talking about politics. those people must not know that they are putting people before politics, too. they are taking care of those people. shut them down. not only is it wrong, it's illegal. it is time congress conducts real oversight and accountability in 11 days. i promise you this, house republicans will begin that on the very first day. but this bill will give biden administration a free pass. this bill provides the f.b.i. with $375 million for a new headquarters. over $11 billion in funding. i guess this congress of democrat majority right now doesn't care if the f.b.i. spied on you. if the f.b.i. went after you simply because you wanted free speech. i guess they believe in that. i guess that's what you mean by putting people before politics. don't listen to the people because if they talk about something other than your politics and what you agree, you should shut them down. fund something that does that. oh, probabl

. >> the f.b.i. had the hunter biden laptop all along and knew it was legitimate and knew that there was information on there that was very damaging to joe biden's campaign for president. >> molly: it's not just hunter biden. what we can expect from the house once the gop subpoena power comes in in the new congress. marc thiessen is in "focus" next. veteran homeowners, need cash? with the newday 100 loan, there are no upfront costs for appraisal or termite inspections. no upfront costs at all to get the cash you need. veterans get more at newday. ho ho ho! not again... oh no... for the gifts you won't forget. happy holidays from mercedes-benz. see your mercedes-benz dealer today for exceptional offers. [ melissa ] you hear about cancer. i just was afraid that i would lose my son. you think, why us? you know, why me? why my child? [ marlo thomas ] you can join the battle to save lives by supporting st. jude children's research hospital. it is such a gift to give hope back to a family. as a dad, i'm et

and i spoke independently to an f.b.i. who was involved in the investigation and a scottish police agent. i befriended a lot of them during this time and i asked them where is iran? i spoke to them separately and both of them said there is no criminal evidence. i said yeah, but iran has to be involved. they said intelligence information, both of them said to me, iran is involved up to their necks but we do not have criminal information. so there is only one person that can get all of this out and give us the full truth and that's president biden. and people the end to forget president biden was a senator in 1988. so if there is anyone down in d.c. that knows this issue backwards and forwards, is him. so don't deflect this to the state department and don't deflect it to the defense department, which is what they all do down there, republicans and democrats. president biden, get the intelligence information and get the intelligence information out as much as the criminal. >> bill: will you have a chance to be in the courtroo

we have louie fried, the former f.b.i. director in the clinton administration sending a thank you note to hunter biden in an email saying i've deposited $1 hundred thousand into a trust account for relatives of joe biden. so this is such a lie that they continue to spiel out there. i want to see louiefree in front of the country testifying and explaining why $1 hundred thousand went into joe biden's relatives' account as a thank you for them opening up the doors at the department of justice to give them business out of romania. explain that to us. somebody has to ask the white house about this. it still hasn't happened. >> harris: it's interesting. i'm often reminded because you know so much about the process that you were the chairman of the oversight committee. it is from that point of view you must be looking at this. americans need to know the answers to this. this is about is a president free to make decisions on our behalf that benefit the american public or is he forced to capitulate because of some former business

a lot of investigations into the f.b.i.nd i think a lot of it will reach back to the president. >> congressman comer will be the head of the house oversight committee says he will copy and paste the requests he has been sending over the last couple of years. won't really slow him down much. the white house says if they're greeted with what they are calling a barrage of subpoenas, a barrage of information requests, that would break with long-standing practice. would it? >> i'm not so sure about that. look, it will be a barrage if they weren't responding up until now. the republicans have made their intentions clear over the last 2 or 3 months. so they had time before. look, there is going to be a lot of oversight this time. there are a lot of republicans asking questions that need to be asked about the poll itization of the f.b.i. and so far, withdrawal from afghanistan, covid. there are all these questions. i think the biden administration is going to be under scrutiny. it hasn't been before. >> rich: where do you republica

the f.b.i. this video of her two days before she was last seen at her home in north carolina on november 23rdrd. here is the problem. police have arrested her mother and stepfather for failing to report her disappearance until three weeks later. ted williams is a former d.c. homicide detective, defense attorney and there are so many troubling aspects to this case. not only the parents waited until december 15th and the f.b.i. joined local law enforcement efforts in the ongoing investigation, but on saturday police arrested the girl's stepmother -- stepfather and mom until december 15th. how do investigators get to work? >> that is the $64,000 question of how you are going to get the mother and stepfather to talk, julie. this is a very sad case and the mother would not have reported this child missing but for the school system stepping in and asking for a check on this child. this is very sad. what authorities are having to do is to work from that home. they are trying to determine whether there

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